Not quite, ... you are PROGRAMMED

I used to think I was what I ate, now I know better.

Like Valenta said, my Canon Pro9000 Mk II also still works great on Win 10 on the old drivers which are apparently modern enough.

Can you set up your iMac as a dual-boot machine, and run Win 10 as the second OS? I know that's possible on some Macs, I don't know which. I believe there's also a capability to run a virtual Windows machine from within the Mac OS, again I don't know which Macs can do this. Anyway, Windows would work with the Canon drivers.

Is your Tamron 2.8 the G2 model? I understand the first generation Tamron 24-70 f2.8 doesn't work with the FTZ adapter, but after I did a firmware update on my 24-70 G2 it works great on a Z7 w/FTZ. Should work for you.

me too!

Sometimes I've done worse. It might be fun to argue whether or not I should be proud of that, but not here. BTW, I don't have a land line anymore, and caller ID is included on cell.

Mostly I don't when I reject the call. So when my Nigerian prince's lawyer tries to make me a millionaire, I will miss the call. In the meantime, I won't miss telephone conversations with thieves.

It's sad, but half the damage is done before you give answers (that don't matter) to random questions. When you pick up the phone, you've just validated to the spammer that your phone number reached an actual person, which is valuable information to them. I pretty much don't answer the phone if I don't recognize the caller's number.

The alternatives of this quality cost more. Also, depends on the size. An 82mm will be about $135.

I don't buy filters from Amazon anymore because it turned out that almost half of the B+W filters I had were counterfeit. Amazon complained only a little and they let me return them for refund.

You won't find any in a new Cadillac convertible. Pity.

My mom learned to drive in a '56 Firedome, pink & white. Took a corner on 2 wheels once on the way home from Sunday school (at the bottom of a steep hill). Went through 6 sets of brakes & 3 transmission rebuilds in 3 years. Mom didn't shy away from speed, that car was fast.

Because if you get a bad card, or a card with a smaller capacity than its label indicates (surprise, ... vendors that lie, cheat & steal have multiple ways to do that), you will have no recourse with the "official" manufacturer. They will know that those cards are not theirs, so no warranty for you. Happens all the time, read the reviews on Amazon to see.

Why are you wondering?

The antenna controls are computer driven and they update many times per second. Tracking something on mars has the antenna slewing much less quickly than tracking a satellite in Low Earth Orbit (LEO)(100 or 200 miles for example). LEO objects are only in line-of-sight view of any particular ground based antenna for a matter of minutes as a satellite travels from horizon to horizon in that time. So, tracking a LEO object has the antenna moving plenty fast, likely near its maximum design rate. In both cases, the antenna is moving (perhaps not fast enough to see, like the minute hand on a clock for example) continuously the whole time it's operating.

There are different modes of tracking. For initial signal acquisition, the antenna is pointed at where the control system calculates the target to be. After signal acquisition, it's possible to have the antenna point at where the signal is strongest (and there are ways to tell if you're aimed slightly off center and which direction), and then just follow that. This was all much simplified, but true.

My last USAF duty station is now under US Space Force.

BTW, breaking news: Perseverance rover has just reported the helicopter is alive, awake, and having its battery charge topped-up.

Depending on where they are in their orbits, earth and mars are approx. 35 million miles to 250 million miles apart. Right now, about 130,000,000 miles so RF (or light) takes about 12 minutes to make that trip.

I don't understand what you're getting at exactly with your question on correcting for the spinning of the earth to receive. There are fairly complex calculations involving the position of an antenna here and the position of an antenna on mars (or in orbit around mars, or wherever) but that's to figure out exactly where to point the antenna (for weak signals far away, highly directional antennas are used and they must be precisely aimed to work). So long as the antennas are aimed at each other, you can exchange signals. The doppler frequency shift in the RF signal for the velocities involved here is pretty small so not a significant problem.

I don't remember the composition of mars atmosphere, except that it's not especially corrosive or poisonous, but it is very thin. The atmospheric pressure, and more importantly the density, on the surface of mars is about the same as that flying at 100,000 feet altitude above earth. Nobody around here flies helicopters up to 100,000 feet altitude. This will be really interesting.

I can't wait for the helicopter. I read on space.com or somewhere that the pre-flight setup/checkout will take a month or so.